On March 30, the Vatican announced its repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery, a principle used to justify centuries of colonialism and oppression of...
Catholic social teaching
It is common today for Catholics to use the Marxist label as a slur—or, less frequently, as a sign of activist credibility. Yet most Catholics lack even a...
A very common way of presenting Catholic social teaching is the formula “see, judge, act.” The method comes to prominence in the social encyclicals of St. Pope...
“I don’t know what to do with Gaudium et Spes,” I exclaimed, sinking into a chair in my professor’s office during graduate school. “Perhaps you should not say...
The United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child, approved by the general assembly on November 20, 1989, is the most widely ratified international...
As Catholics we are accustomed to thinking of ourselves as members of a universal church. We understand our identity not just in terms of specific communities...
“Do you feed your children macaroni?” This was an actual question that 19th-century officials surveying the Lower East Side of New York City would ask Italian...
In retrospect, the mistake might have been in telling people they were essential. It’s one explanation for the string of disruptive events that has rippled...
What should a post-COVID-19 world look like? Pope Francis has been thinking about this question for quite a long time—from very early on, in fact. Almost two...
For many people, the word capitalism conjures up a set of images focused on greed. The system is about a competition, with everyone seeking their own self...
